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PSYCH: The Story of the Human Mind

The Next Big Idea

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The Fall of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud has had a significant fall from grace. He got just about everything wrong, he says. We all kind of live in a world that was partially created by Freud. For me his great accomplishment was he really did build a science of the mind based on the idea of a dynamic unconscious. But the notion that we don't know why we do what we do has remained. And I think is important.

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